The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-09
Farm and Garden Notes.

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Promote exercise among the fowls.
Let the water given a milch COW be
clear and pure.
One good COW is better than two or
three medium ones.
Fresh and clean mixtures are better for
hogs than is any sour, fermeuted slop,
Sheep and cattle eat readily many
weeds and grasses which hog will not
touch.
Oat straw is most valuable for stock
when fed with clover hay or cotton seed
or oil meal.
The value of hen manure from single
bird for one year has been estimated at
fifteen cents.
Turnips, carrots and other roots are
very beneficial to sheep in winter to pro-
mote digestion.
Quickly-grown, shade-cured hay is the
best thing to make yellow butter, says
the Guernsey Breeder.
Grasses and clover do best on rather
firm soil having fine surface. So do
the cereals for that matter.
Suuhower seeds should be fed to
poultry in moderate quantities, otherwise
they will cause early moulting and make
the feathers fly OIL
President Philips, of the West Michi-
gan Horticultural Society, regards un-
leached wood ashes as the best fertilizer
known for vineyards.
1t is recommended to spade the poultry
yards frequently, and then sprinkle them
with lime, as the best mode of cleaning
-sweetcning them up as it were.
1t is recommended to plow the garden
plot as soon as the crop is removed, and
thus prevent the invasion of weeds, thus
preventing garden work next season.
Wind-mills and artesian wells are very
satisfactory substitutes for running
streams, without which it was formerly
supposed pastures could not be kept up.
John Gould, in a Philadelphia paper,
says if water could be expelled from
butter it would keep as well as lard.
whose keeping qualities are due to this
fact.
The Orchard and Garden affirms that the
French remedy Of sulphate of copper
and lime, recommended by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, does not prevent
mildew.
The dahlia is regaining its former
popularity. For fine flowers the branches
should be thinned out a little and the
flowers should never suffer for the want
of water.
1t is said that while cattle are turned
upon young clover, if only hay is dis
posed where the beasts can get it, they
will eat enough of it to prevent bloat
from the clover.
Clean culture on moderately rich land
early in the season and no cultivation of
the soil after midsummer, is one secret of
success with peaches, according to the
Ne,o England Farmer.
An exchange says: To train flock
of sheep raise lamb at the house, teach
it TO come when called, and then put it
with the flock. By calling the petted
lamb the others will follow.
English authority recommends wad-
ding in place of bran, paper, shavings,
etc, as the best thing in which to pack
peaches and fine fruits to be shipped for
exhibition or special market.
1t is quite as necessary to keep pas
lures up by manuring as it is to apply
fertilizers to grain fields. As clover is
perhaps the only herbage of which the
growth increases the fertility of the land,
so is the sheep the only animal which
can pasture on grasses without absorbing
more fertility than it imparts.
Attempts to burn out stubble in prep
aration for plowing rarely succeeds un-
loss IL iS very heavy and lonU 0ot stra vv
is soft, thus allowing it to absorb moist
ure that in wheat or rye stubble falls off.
The latter also stands up better, giving a
better chance for the wind to fan the
/ flames. Even a stack of oats will not
| burn with the same tierceness as of other
grain, but it makes a smouldering fire,
easier to put out by smothering than by
water.